(Min.) A kind of mineral coal, or brown lignite, burning with a weak flame, and generally a disagreeable odor; -- found at Bovey Tracey, Devonshire, England. It is of geological age of the oölite, and not of the true coal era. [ 1913 Webster ]

. A bureau of the United States government charged with the topographic and hydrographic survey of the coast and the execution of belts of primary triangulation and lines of precise leveling in the interior. It now belongs to the Department of Commerce and Labor. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Conveyed p. pr. & vb. n. Conveying. ] [ OF. conveir, convoier, to escort, convoy, F. convoyer, LL. conviare, fr. L. con- + via way. See Viaduct, Voyage, and cf. Convoy. ] 1. To carry from one place to another; to bear or transport. [ 1913 Webster ]

I will convey them by sea in floats. 1 Kings v. 9. [ 1913 Webster ]

Convey me to my bed, then to my grave. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cause to pass from one place or person to another; to serve as a medium in carrying (anything) from one place or person to another; to transmit; as, air conveys sound; words convey ideas. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To transfer or deliver to another; to make over, as property; more strictly (Law), to transfer (real estate) or pass (a title to real estate) by a sealed writing. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Earl of Desmond . . . secretly conveyed all his lands to feoffees in trust. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To impart or communicate; as, to convey an impression; to convey information. [ 1913 Webster ]

Men fill one another's heads with noise and sound, but convey not thereby their thoughts. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To manage with privacy; to carry out. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

I . . . will convey the business as I shall find means. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. To carry or take away secretly; to steal; to thieve. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

7. To accompany; to convoy. [ Obs. ] Chaucer.

Syn. -- To carry; transport; bear; transmit; transfer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To play the thief; to steal. [ Cant ] [ 1913 Webster ]

But as I am Crack, I will convey, crossbite, and cheat upon Simplicius. Marston. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being conveyed or transferred. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of conveying, carrying, or transporting; carriage. [ 1913 Webster ]

The long journey was to be performed on horseback, -- the only sure mode of conveyance. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]

Following the river downward, there is conveyance into the countries named in the text. Sir W. Raleigh. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The instrument or means of carrying or transporting anything from place to place; the vehicle in which, or means by which, anything is carried from one place to another; as, stagecoaches, omnibuses, etc., are conveyances; a canal or aqueduct is a conveyance for water. [ 1913 Webster ]

These pipes and these conveyances of our blood. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The act or process of transferring, transmitting, handing down, or communicating; transmission. [ 1913 Webster ]

Tradition is no infallible way of conveyance. Stillingfleet. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Law) The act by which the title to property, esp. real estate, is transferred; transfer of ownership; an instrument in writing (as a deed or mortgage), by which the title to property is conveyed from one person to another. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ He ] found the conveyances in law to be so firm, that in justice he must decree the land to the earl. Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Dishonest management, or artifice. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

the very Jesuits themselves . . . can not possibly devise any juggling conveyance how to shift it off. Hakewill. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Law) One whose business is to draw up conveyances of property, as deeds, mortgages, leases, etc. Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Law) The business of a conveyancer; the act or business of drawing deeds, leases, or other writings, for transferring the title to property from one person to another. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, conveys or carries, transmits or transfers. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One given to artifices or secret practices; a juggler; a cheat; a thief. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the act of transferring a property title from one person to another.
Syn. -- conveyance, conveyance of title, conveyancing. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Mach.) A contrivance for carrying objects from place to place; esp., one for conveying grain, coal, etc., -- as a spiral or screw turning in a pipe or trough, an endless belt with buckets, or a truck running along a rope. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. cov&unr_;e, F. couv&unr_;e, fr. cover, F. couver, to sit or brood on, fr. L. cubare to lie down; cf. E. incubate. See Cubit, and cf. Cove to brood. ] 1. A brood or hatch of birds; an old bird with her brood of young; hence, a small flock or number of birds together; -- said of game; as, a covey of partridges. Darwin. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A company; a bevy; as, a covey of girls. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To brood; to incubate. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Tortoises ] covey a whole year before they hatch. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A pantry. [ Prov. Eng. ] Parker. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. dis- + purvey: cf. OF. desporveoir, F. dépourvoir. ] To disfurnish; to strip. [ Obs. ] Heywood. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Want of provisions; &unr_;ack of food. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Law) A conveyance, as by deed, effected by the act of the parties and not involving, as in the fine and recovery, judicial proceedings. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. A yard or inclosure for the interment of the dead; a cemetery. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Metal.) A process of hardening the face of steel, as armor plates, invented by Hayward A. Harvey of New Jersey, consisting in the additional carburizing of the face of a piece of low carbon steel by subjecting it to the action of carbon under long-continued pressure at a very high heat, and then to a violent chilling, as by a spray of cold water. This process gives an armor plate a thick surface of extreme hardness supported by material gradually decreasing in hardness to the unaltered soft steel at the back. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. a name for the Old Testament God as transliterated from the Hebrew YHVH. See Jehovah.
Syn. -- Yahweh, Yahwe, Yahveh, Yahve, Wahvey, Jahweh, Jehovah. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } n. 1. The driver of a hackney coach. [ Slang, Eng. ] Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A hackney coach. [ Slang, Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The litter at the bottom of the jarvy. T. Hook. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Said to be from the inventor's name. ] (Lumbering) A cant hook having the end of its lever armed with a spike; it is used for handling logs.
Syn. -- cant dog. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. + WordNet 1.5 ]

n. See Purveyance. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Purveyed p. pr. & vb. n. Purveying. ] [ OE. purveien, porveien, OF. porveeir, porveoir, F. pourvoir, fr. L. providere. See Provide, and cf. Purview. ] 1. To furnish or provide, as with a convenience, provisions, or the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

Give no odds to your foes, but do purvey
Yourself of sword before that bloody day. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To procure; to get. [ 1913 Webster ]

I mean to purvey me a wife after the fashion of the children of Benjamin. Sir W. Scot. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To purchase provisions; to provide; to make provision. Chaucer. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To pander; -- with to. “ Their turpitude purveys to their malice.” [ R. ] Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. pourvoyance. ] 1. The act or process of providing or procuring; providence; foresight; preparation; management. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

The ill purveyance of his page. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is provided; provisions; food. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Eng. Law) A providing necessaries for the sovereign by buying them at an appraised value in preference to all others, and oven without the owner's consent. This was formerly a royal prerogative, but has long been abolished. Wharton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. porveour, OF. pourveor, F. pourvoyeur. See Purvey, and cf. Proveditor. ] 1. One who provides victuals, or whose business is to make provision for the table; a victualer; a caterer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An officer who formerly provided, or exacted provision, for the king's household. [ Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. a procurer; a pimp; a bawd. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To convey back or to the former place; as, to reconvey goods. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To transfer back to a former owner; as, to reconvey an estate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Act of reconveying. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To survey again or anew; to review. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A second or new survey. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } v. t. & i. [ Written also savey. ] [ Sp. saber to know, sabe usted do you know? ] To understand; to comprehend; know. [ Slang, U. S. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

{ }, n. Comprehension; knowledge of affairs; mental grasp; also, practical know-how; common sense. [ Slang, U. S. ] also adj. knowledgeable; well-informed; clever; canny; wise. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

n. A maidservant. [ Colloq. & Jocose Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Surveyed p. pr. & vb. n. Surveying. ] [ OF. surveoir, surveer; sur, sor, over, E. sur + veoir, veeir, to see, F. voir, L. videre. See Sur-, and Vision, and cf. Supervise. ] 1. To inspect, or take a view of; to view with attention, as from a high place; to overlook; as, to stand on a hill, and survey the surrounding country. [ 1913 Webster ]

Round he surveys and well might, where he stood,
So high above. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To view with a scrutinizing eye; to examine. [ 1913 Webster ]

With such altered looks, . . .
All pale and speechless, he surveyed me round. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To examine with reference to condition, situation, value, etc.; to examine and ascertain the state of; as, to survey a building in order to determine its value and exposure to loss by fire. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To determine the form, extent, position, etc., of, as a tract of land, a coast, harbor, or the like, by means of linear and angular measurments, and the application of the principles of geometry and trigonometry; as, to survey land or a coast. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To examine and ascertain, as the boundaries and royalties of a manor, the tenure of the tenants, and the rent and value of the same. [ Eng. ] Jacob (Law Dict.). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Formerly accentuated universally on the last syllable, and still so accented by many speakers. ] 1. The act of surveying; a general view, as from above. [ 1913 Webster ]

Under his proud survey the city lies. Sir J. Denham. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A particular view; an examination, especially an official examination, of all the parts or particulars of a thing, with a design to ascertain the condition, quantity, or quality; as, a survey of the stores of a ship; a survey of roads and bridges; a survey of buildings. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The operation of finding the contour, dimensions, position, or other particulars of, as any part of the earth's surface, whether land or water; also, a measured plan and description of any portion of country, or of a road or line through it. [ 1913 Webster ]

Survey of dogs. See Court of regard, under Regard. --
Trigonometrical survey, a survey of a portion of country by measuring a single base, and connecting it with various points in the tract surveyed by a series of triangles, the angles of which are carefully measured, the relative positions and distances of all parts being computed from these data. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Review; retrospect; examination; prospect. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Survey. [ R. ] Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Survey; inspection. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. That branch of applied mathematics which teaches the art of determining the area of any portion of the earth's surface, the length and directions of the bounding lines, the contour of the surface, etc., with an accurate delineation of the whole on paper; the act or occupation of making surveys. [ 1913 Webster ]

Geodetic surveying, geodesy. --
Maritime surveying, or
Nautical surveying, that branch of surveying which determines the forms of coasts and harbors, the entrances of rivers, with the position of islands, rocks, and shoals, the depth of water, etc. --
Plane surveying. See under Plane, a. --
Topographical surveying, that branch of surveying which involves the process of ascertaining and representing upon a plane surface the contour, physical features, etc., of any portion of the surface of the earth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One placed to superintend others; an overseer; an inspector. [ 1913 Webster ]

Were 't not madness then,
To make the fox surveyor of the fold? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who views and examines for the purpose of ascertaining the condition, quantity, or quality of anything; as, a surveyor of highways, ordnance, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. One who surveys or measures land; one who practices the art of surveying. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Customs) (a) An officer who ascertains the contents of casks, and the quantity of liquors subject to duty; a gauger. (b) In the United States, an officer whose duties include the various measures to be taken for ascertaining the quantity, condition, and value of merchandise brought into a port. Abbot. [ 1913 Webster ]

Surveyor general. (a) A principal surveyor; as, the surveyor general of the king's manors, or of woods and parks. [ Eng. ] (b) An officer having charge of the survey of the public lands of a land district. [ U.S. ] Davies & Peck (Math. Dict.). --
Surveyor's compass. See Circumferentor. --
Surveyor's level. See under Level. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The office of a surveyor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The snow goose. [ Canadian, & Local U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]